Nobel Prize

Fritz Zernike receives his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf on 10 December 1953. Fritz Zernike and Sweden’s Queen Louise at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 1953. From left: Medecine laureate Fritz Lipmann with his wife Elfreda, physics laureate Frits Zernike and chemistry laureate Hermann Staudinger with his wife Magda at the Nobel…

Fritz Lipmann receiving his Nobel Prize from Sweden’s King Gustaf VI Adolf on 10 December 1953. Fritz Lipmann’s son Steven admiring his father’s Nobel Prize medal after the award ceremony. From left: Medecine laureate Fritz Lipmann with his wife Elfreda, physics laureate Frits Zernike and chemistry laureate Hermann Staudinger with his wife Magda at the…

Links to other sites Chemistry laureate Glenn T. Seaborg (middle) and his wife Helen converse with physics laureate Manne Siegbahn during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, 9 December 1951.

Albert Schweitzer, his wife Hélène Bresslau and Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in the auditorium of Oslo University, 4 November 1954. Albert Schweitzer before the departure to his hospital at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, 1923.

Georg von Békésy (left) and literature laureate Ivo Andric during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden, December 1961.

Frans Eemil Sillanpää in his home receives the news that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1939.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson receiving his Nobel Prize from the hands of King Oscar II, 10 December 1903. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and his wife Karoline in the livingroom at Aulestad, Gausdal, Norway, 1908.

Friedrich Bergius with wife at Grand hotel, Stockholm, the day before his Nobel Lecture, 21 May 1932.

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The 15 meter Holmdel horn antenna at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey was built in 1959 for pioneering work in communication satellites for the NASA ECHO I. In 1964, radio astronomers Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation with it, for which they were awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize…